{"id":6221,"date":"2025-06-01T09:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T09:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/?p=6221"},"modified":"2025-06-02T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:32:20","slug":"waterverbruik-in-de-veehouderij","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/waterverbruik-in-de-veehouderij\/","title":{"rendered":"Water consumption in animal husbandry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6221\" class=\"elementor elementor-6221\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-661a57e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"661a57e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-561961f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"561961f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In the 'WAVE' project, several Flemish knowledge and practice centres join forces to collect representative figures on water consumption in livestock farming and derive knowledge and applications for livestock farmers. Concrete figures are lacking and to cope with periods of water scarcity in the future, water saving and conversion to alternative water sources will have to be implemented wherever possible.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-287b039 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"287b039\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">In practice<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4183bc7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4183bc7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>During the first phase (2023-2025) of 'WAVE', intensive measurement campaigns were launched in pig, poultry and cattle farming.<\/p><p>PVL monitors drinking water consumption at four pig farmers by installing smart water meters. The water meters are placed per department and the pig farmers provide us with important information, such as animal numbers, production figures and feed intake. In this way, we get answers to questions per animal category in relation to productivity, such as:<\/p><ul><li>What does a pregnant sow drink per day?<\/li><li>What does a sow with piglets drink per day?<\/li><li>What does a porker drink per day?<\/li><li>What does a piglet drink per day?<\/li><li>What is the correlation between feed intake and water intake?<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b1ebc2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6b1ebc2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a0bedc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8a0bedc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e95cd1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1e95cd1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.03_f8548499-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-6227\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.03_f8548499-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.03_f8548499-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.03_f8548499-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.03_f8548499-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.03_f8548499-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.03_f8548499.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2035a38 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2035a38\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ce5ff7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ce5ff7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Each smart water meter is connected by a cable to a data logger. The data logger receives the water level of the respective water meter every minute and transmits this level to an online platform. Through this platform, we have insight into the water consumption of each water meter at all times.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ee4d92 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3ee4d92\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-330f4dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"330f4dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.04_13c4233b-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-6228\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.04_13c4233b-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.04_13c4233b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.04_13c4233b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.04_13c4233b-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.04_13c4233b-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Afbeelding-van-WhatsApp-op-2024-04-12-om-09.16.04_13c4233b.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec6e38e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ec6e38e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e1cf7f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8e1cf7f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Project status June 2025<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fcc6378 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fcc6378\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>WAVE has now entered the second phase (2023-2025) of the project. This phase focuses on mapping water consumption used as cleaning water (barn cleaning, milking installation, etc.) and water used for cooling systems (atomisation, etc.). Several farms per sector are currently being monitored.<\/p><p>PVL records the water consumption of different processes on several pig farms by installing smart water meters. When selecting farms, the different types of farms and different cleaning methods were taken into account. For example, for dairy farms, both farms with classic milking systems and those with milking robots are sought. Besides cleaning water, during periods of heat stress on different farms, water consumption will be measured for different cooling systems of barns and\/or animals. Again, the aim is to monitor as many different systems as possible.<\/p><p>From the intensive measurement campaigns of 'WAVE' will come representative figures to support Flemish livestock farming. The figures can then be used in four areas:<\/p><ul><li>Estimate water demand per farm and per water consumption item<\/li><li>Based on water demand, explore options for an appropriate alternative water source or combination of water sources<\/li><li>Monitor switching to alternative water sources so that abnormal drinking behaviour can be detected more quickly.<\/li><li>Judging where and how water saving is possible especially in terms of cleaning water and how an alternative water source can be used as cleaning water without further treatment (and therefore cost).<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a83a6f7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a83a6f7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8139-1-300x134.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-6237\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8139-1-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8139-1-1024x458.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8139-1-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8139-1-1536x687.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8139-1-2048x916.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8139-1-18x8.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bca7f2 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"2bca7f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/projecten\/wave-waterverbruik-in-de-veehouderij\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Project page WAVE<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce2a5dd e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ce2a5dd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f990d87 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f990d87\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Logos-Wave-768x230.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-6230\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Logos-Wave-768x230.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Logos-Wave-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Logos-Wave-18x5.png 18w, https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Logos-Wave.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In het project \u2018WAVE\u2019 slaan verschillende Vlaamse kennis- en praktijkcentra de handen in elkaar om representatieve cijfers over het waterverbruik in de veehouderij te verzamelen en daaruit kennis en toepassingen voor de veehouders af te leiden. Concrete cijfers ontbreken namelijk en om periodes van waterschaarste in de toekomst het hoofd te kunnen bieden, zal, waar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,42,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nieuws","category-varkens","category-water"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvl-vzw.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}